Malala Yousafzai is an advocate for human rights, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan. There, the local Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In 2012, Malala and two other girls were shot by a Taliban gunman in an assassination attempt in retaliation for their activism. Malala was hit in the head with a bullet, but recovered and went on to increase her activist work, graduate from Oxford University, and is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.

Malala is curating the highly anticipated Fearless Book Club. While it costs money to join, each of the 12 book titles are announced, so you can read along for free if you wish. The first book, "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith, is available at the library.